If a friend insists TGIF, but the
near-beer, half-hearted/half-empty glass of your week
breaks in your hand so that you cut your finger with worry,
you mix a Bloody-Alice, because when life hands you blood oranges
you make Band-Aid, which
instead of raising a toast to wrap
the incredible bullshit you go on about,
Alice said “DRINK ME”, like in the story, and she
drank with you in the bar then drank with you back at your place
drank herself until squinting you looked like her wonderland, her velveteen rabbit, you want to ask her “are you my mother?” because its Go Dog Go, all now another story entirely
where you wake tomorrow with capillaries
that are toffee-sticky, a
headache gooey as cherry pie,
you didn’t listen to your friends
who warned you about the poison.
For Miz Quickly
qbit 
Also reminds me of that love song where the guy doesn’t care what his friends think of his gal.
‘He’ll sleep out in the rain, if that’s what she wants’….
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YES!!!! This is excellent! Cyclonic!
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Hahaha! Thanks!
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Been there. Thank god that’s past.
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It was your call for TGIF and Alice and drink, not mine, LOL!
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Wow, I played this backwards and heard Jefferson Airplane! But seriously, this is wonderful and wonderfully surreal, q!
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Jefferson Airplane!! Yes! I didn’t think of that. So good. I should work in “turn me on dead man” too.
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Bad confession. I only know their radio hits. I was in another ozone back then.
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Ah, OK. If you play Helter Skelter backeards from the Beatles White Album you hear Paul say “turn me on dead man, turn me on dear man”. Or as best as we could all make out before we had the internet to tell us these kind of things on YouTube.
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“And if you play the latest John Lennon song backwards at high speeds, it says, ‘Hey, stupid! You’re playing the latest John Lennon song backwards!'”
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YouTube has corrected me, it was Revolution 9
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Not to be confused with number 9 dream — “Number 9… Number 9… Serving Number 10….”
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glass breaking/velveteen rabbit/cherry pie…There is so much good wordsmithery in here and I love how you do this Alice metaphor without a drop of cliche. Your originality, I’m a fan!
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Thanks!!
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